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“spear of the people”
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\le.ʒe\ · French
01 / Meaning & origin
Léger is a masculine given name. French Wiktionary gives the meaning “spear of the people”.
Meaning: “spear of the people”
Du vieux-francique Leodegar (« lance du peuple ») (en latin Leodegarius), du germanique Leudgari, de leod (« peuple, gens » → voir Leute) et gar (« lance » → voir ger). (Vers 980) Lethgier (Vie de Saint Léger).
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Leger— “people’s spear”
Leutgar, the people’s spear, was a good bishop of Antrim, who was speared by the people, or, at least, murdered by them, in the furious wars of the long-haired kings, and was revered as a martyr under the Latin form of Leodigarius. A priest of Chalons was canonized by the same name, which is in France Leguire, and was brought as a territorial surname to England as St. Leger.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section IX (Locality) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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